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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, ...

An atmospheric river storm that dumped record rain in Northern California will bring some precipitation to Southern ...

Laura Richardson emerged the victor of the competitive, costly and feisty election to win a South Los Angeles seat in the ...

Lebanese officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 15 people and injured dozens in central Beirut as the ...

Trump's election was just the latest surprise in U.S. politics. If I've learned anything, it's that there will be more.

Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), soon to be the first transgender member of Congress, was targeted by multiple Republican ...

When Hurricane Milton was approaching Florida last month, a mom in suburban Tampa went viral on TikTok for her refusal to ...

Samuel “Negro” Villalba was found shot to death in a homeless camp in 2021, years after the Mexican Mafia kicked him out and ...

Combs’ legal team told the judge that it was proposing conditions “far more restrictive” than Combs faces in jail.

When BTS ended Justin Bieber’s reign by winning the Billboard Awards’ Top Social Artist in 2017, a year that also marked “the ...

Donald Trump picks Scott Bessent, a former money manager for Democratic donor George Soros, as Treasury secretary. He also ...